Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham Cv

Rodney Graham is recognized for a rigorously intellectual art, which ranges from photography, film, video and music to sculpture, painting and books. Graham's work examines social and philosophical systems of thought, in particular those derived from the transition of the Enlightenment into Modernism. Underlying each work is an historical context, through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophic references and visual puns.
The work is essentially circular in structure and moves in seamless and infinite loops, such as the film trilogy Vexation Island (1997), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999), and City Self/Country Self (2001), where Graham impersonates fictional characters - respectively a castaway, a cowboy and a city dandy as well as its opposite, a country man – who are engaged in the endless repetition of fruitless actions and gestures, caught in the impossibility of reaching any meaningful conclusion. Borrowing from existing models, Graham constructs his own system, whose operating logic, often based in disorientation, the humorous and the absurd, deflects rather than reveals the key to their interpretation.

Rodney Graham lives and works in Vancouver.
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CURRENT

Rodney Graham
Through the Forest, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
13 June 2010 - 26 September 2010
Museum für Gegenwartskunst

fast forward 2. The Power of Motion - Media Art Sammlung Goetz
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
18 June 2010 - 3 October 2010
ZKM

17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
12 May – 1 August 2010
Biennale of Sydney

Kurt
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
13 May 2010 – 6 September 2010
Seattle Art Museum

PAST

Rodney Graham – Through the Forest
MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, ES
30 January 2010 - 18 May 2010
MACBA

Glass of Beer
CAC Málaga, Spain
21 April 2008
CAC Málaga

Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
30 March 2007 - 16 June 2007
BAWAG Foundation

Rodney Graham, A Little Thought
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
25 July 2004 - 3 January 2005
MOCA LA

Rodney Graham
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
15 February - 15 May 2003
K21

Rodney Graham, Music and Some Noise
Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Kunsthalle Zurich

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